Total 6 job vacancies by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology

Major Duties:
-Plans, coordinates, develops, improves, and implements efficient and economical management of information systems in support of Service Line activities.
-Accomplishes long and short-range projects in the modification of systems and software.
-Provides guidance for the solution of difficult and unprecedented problems resulting from new or modified operational management information concepts and requirements.
-Applies limited functional knowledge of material, in implementing new and/or improved information systems.
-Applies extensive knowledge of changes in the state-of-the-art regarding integrated information and control systems analysis and other scientific management techniques used in the implementation of information systems.
-Provides feedback to the Supervisor on information gained.
-Researching and testing products and services to support the information plan and directives to determine requirements, life-cycle management to determine support and replacement resource requirements.

Promotion Potential: This position is at full performance level.

Work Schedule: M-F, 8:00-4:30 pm
Virtual: This is a remote position.
Position Description/PD#: IT Specialist/19423A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Work Environment: The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions.

Major Duties:

• Review and audit Personnel Action Requests (PARs) to ensure the accuracy of the nature of action, authority code, PD number, position descriptions, remarks, promotions, transfers, special salary determinations, and corrections to employee records.
• Perform administrative, audit and analytical oversight functions for human resources programs and functions related to recruitment and placement, personnel security, position management, performance management, and HR automation systems.
• Develop training tools and plans and assist in implementing approved recommendations to correct deficiencies, establish and modify processes to meet organizational goals, objectives and changing needs.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with leadership, management, and staff to further issue guidance to clarify conflicting guidance or alleviate other potential or existing problems.
• Apply Human Resources concepts, principles, and practices related to identifying, altering, and selecting individuals and placing them into positions to address changing organizational needs.
• Analyze and prepare occupational information to facilitate personnel, administration, and management HR functions of the organization.

This is a bargaining unit position.

The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 100 applications. The first 100 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (100 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 100 in the order they applied.

Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed.

This position is primarily aligned to the following NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework work roles:

• 802 - IT Project Manager

This is a bargaining unit position.

The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 50 applications. The first 50 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (50 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 50 in the order they applied.

Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed.

This position is primarily aligned to the following NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework work roles:

• 641 - System Requirements Planner
• 651 - Enterprise Architect

The incumbent will perform a wide variety of high-level Senior Programmer/Software Architect/Software Developer duties connected with the initiation, management, coordination, development, systems integration, and execution of critical software application development activities. The incumbent assists and advises senior management with efforts to ensure adherence to OIT/SPM development processes, change and configuration management processes, development resource allocation, software tools selection and schedule commitments.

The incumbent initiates, leads, performs and coordinates activities that include ensuring successful development of approved software applications, leading development and systems integration efforts of enterprise application software, infrastructure or operating system software in support of mission critical and routine enterprise functions (e.g. using current methodologies such as web services, creating web service wrappers for legacy systems, using Object Oriented program languages and modeling artifacts), develops leading edge strategies, standards and policies for developing advanced computer software applications, The incumbent leads the maintenance and testing of legacy software ensuring that enterprise solutions work with production software, ensuring that standards, protocols, methods and techniques are included as part of the development unit testing of the software solutions. Validates and leads documentation efforts of application software within the enterprise, preparing and validating technical/programming specifications as required. Collects, validates, and provides technical input and support for the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) working on OIT/SPM contracts, and liaises across VA business lines for consolidated efforts and for existing software development and integration efforts. They will also recommend, and modify technical strategies to reflect changes in project scope and objectives, as well as recommending incorporation of new software strategies and methods for OIT/SPM (e.g. mobile computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), analytics in Big Data)

The incumbent is expected to have in-depth experience leading requirements planning, procurement, design, modification, integration, testing, and deployment of IT systems; experience providing oversight for the development of IT systems test strategies, plans, and scenarios and working with internal and external stakeholders, as well as expertise in VA and industry IT security concepts, policies, standards, and methods in order to effectively integrate with other systems, and protect Veteran data against vulnerabilities.

The incumbent must have a mastery of one or more of the following programming languages (M, Java, Delphi, C++, C#, Objective C, HTML5, COBOL, Oracle, Visual Basic .NET and integrated development environments (IDE) such as Eclipse, etc.) in order to lead design and code reviews, make recommendations to the Technical Reference Model (TRM) group regarding tools and standards, and experience in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Accounting, Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), and Informatica is mandatory.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm (40 Hours)
Compressed/Flexible: Authorized
Remote: Yes
Virtual: Yes
Telework: No
Position Description Title/PD#: It Specialist (APPSW))/PD18100A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station: Not Authorized
Physical Requirements: The work is largely sedentary. May be required to work under stressful conditions, such as long hours, to complete sensitive and urgent work assignments.
Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level
This is not a Bargaining Unit Position.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders. Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
• Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system lifecycle support plans, concept of operations,operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
• Write detailed functional specifications that document the architecture development process.
• Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
• Plan implementation strategy to ensure that enterprise components can be integrated and aligned. Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.
• Consult with customers to evaluate functional requirements.
• Coordinate with systems architects and developers, as needed, to provide oversight in the development of design solutions.
• Define project scope and objectives based on customer requirements.
• Oversee and make recommendations regarding configuration management.
• Perform needs analysis to determine opportunities for new and improved business process solutions.
• Prepare use cases to justify the need for specific information technology (IT) solutions.
• Develop methods to monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts.
• Resolve conflicts in laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures.
• Ensure that all acquisitions, procurements, and outsourcing efforts address information security requirements consistent with organization goals.
• Manage the internal relationship with information technology (IT) process owners supporting the service, assisting with the definition and agreement of Operating Level Agreements (OLAs).